ISBN: 9780970897213

Fire in the Rock is the story of two young men, Bo Fisher and Pollo Templeton, white and black, coming of age in the red dirt South of the 1950s. It's summertime, and they are sixteen, wi… More...

Fire in the Rock is the story of two young men, Bo Fisher and Pollo Templeton, white and black, coming of age in the red dirt South of the 1950s. It's summertime, and they are sixteen, with free use of a pickup truck and the constant company of a carefree, long-legged girl named Mae Maude Snoddy. But this is also the heyday of Jim Crow, and what at first seems an idyllic summer turns dark, violent, infected by the letter of the law, the fear and small-mindedness of the times, and the weight of the past kept hidden.Ten years later, the ground has changed again, and for Bo and Pollo to remain friends, they will have to take their shared histories in hand, and come to terms with events that continue to haunt them. A moving and thoughtful book, Fire in the Rock is as much about how we see history as it is about a particular time and place, and it's filled with all the subtleties and soft ground there is to be walked around the issues of race and human nature. Media > Book<

2001, ISBN: 9780970897213

Novello Festival Pr, Hardcover, 253 Seiten, Publiziert: 2001-10-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, 0.68 kg, Special Features, Books, Books Global Store, Historical, Literature & Fiction, … More...

Novello Festival Pr, Hardcover, 253 Seiten, Publiziert: 2001-10-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, 0.68 kg, Special Features, Books, Books Global Store, Historical, Literature & Fiction, Subjects, Political, Literary Fiction, Novello Festival Pr, 2001<